Slift Post “Thousand Helmets of Gold” Video
By the fires of Space-Mordor, it’s a new Slift video!
You may recall last year when the Toulouse, France-based heavy space rock trio posted a clip for “Lions, Tigers and Bears” from their Feb. 2020 album, Ummon (review here), in time to coincide with the US release. Well, it’s been a year since Ummon first came out and they’ve got a wildly different kind of video to mark this occasion.
Where “Lions, Tigers and Bears” captured an energetic live performance, a sweaty-looking crowd of people standing oh-so-close to each other and sharing every precious second in joyous communion with not only each other, not only the band on stage, but the intangible yet physical motion of the music itself, well, it’s probably been a while at this point since Slift played a show. And even if they did, would it really be fair to show off? Maybe.
Nonetheless, “Thousand Helmets of Gold” brings something different right from the outset. The three-piece themselves are absent and in their place is a digitally animated narrative that, if we’re being honest with each other, looks like a video game I want to play. I’m not a gamer, necessarily, but every now and then a new Final Fantasy comes along and I feel the pull of my wasted youth to dive in. I’d play “Thousand Helmets of Gold,” grind out levels until all my stats were maxed out, then hit up that fortress and lay waste accordingly. It would be a blast as well as a decent way to pass time while waiting for the return of the kind of shows that might result in the communal joy noted above.
Ummon, if you didn’t hear it — and I know you did, but bear with me — was about as righteous as space rock got in 2020, and that’s pretty damn righteous. So now that we’re passed a year since it arrived, it seems like an excellent time to revisit. The full Bandcamp stream is down near the bottom of the post.
Enjoy:
Slift, “Thousand Helmets of Gold” official video
Video created by Guthio & Alexis Regidor
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Design/Props by Alexis Regidor
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From SLIFT’s double album ‘UMMON’ (Feb. 28th 2020, Vicious Circle Records / Stolen Body Records)
Recorded by Olivier Cussac at Condorcet, Toulouse
SLIFT are:
Jean Fossat : guitar, vocals, synth
Rémi Fossat : bass
Canek Flores : drums
